Wienke Giezeman is the co-founder of The Things Network. He is on a mission to provide the entire world with a free and open internet of things data network. He managed to provide the city of Amsterdam with coverage in 6 weeks.

He started his career working for a large telecom provider but soon he left the corporate world and founded WappZapp, a video on demand platform providing curated free and paid video. WappZapp got acquired by Sanoma Publishing at the end of 2014.